These new reveals are amazing. Mantenna. He looks ... incredible. WAY better than I thought the MOTUC version of Mantenna would ever look.

Castaspella also looks amazing. And she comes with a unique and appropriate "weapon" in the form of magic spell blasts instead of yet another repainted She-Ra shield. That is excellent!

I'll probably have to pass on Shokoti and Batros to save my pennies for Mantenna as I suspect his DOS stock will sell out incredibly fast and I may have to pay secondary market price for him. But, both Shokoti and Batros look great. I wouldn't have been opposed to seeing more sculpted details on Shokoti, but she looks very good.

And Icer. Well, he looks good, but I have absolutely no recollection of this character.

OK then - so there's no way we're getting ALL of these figures this year in our already-paid for 2013 sub. Super early look at SDCC exclusives? Or is it the mythical Filmation sub (which all of these figures except NA He-Man could be in)?

Mattel's MOTUC stuff is scheduled for Sunday at NYTF so we'll find out then.

If it's a Filmation sub, the only candidates from that batch are Icer, Shokoti and Batros. And the reason they're heavily favoured as a special sub line is they are one episode characters. I imagine it'd be a way to cash in on Filmation rights they paid for without slotting them into the regular line, given that Toy Guru has said next year is going to hammer out the remaining vintage line characters.

Jor-El wrote:Mattel's MOTUC stuff is scheduled for Sunday at NYTF so we'll find out then.

If it's a Filmation sub, the only candidates from that batch are Icer, Shokoti and Batros. And the reason they're heavily favoured as a special sub line is they are one episode characters. I imagine it'd be a way to cash in on Filmation rights they paid for without slotting them into the regular line, given that Toy Guru has said next year is going to hammer out the remaining vintage line characters.

One could argue that, as Mantenna and Castaspella are so heavily influenced by their cartoon style over their vintage figure look, Matty is looking to free up what are shaping to be limited spots in the main sub for '14.

You could, but the whole point of a Filmation sub would be for characters that didn't have vintage toys. Castaspella, maybe. If they start putting Mantenna in other subs, it would defeat the purpose of getting to the vintage figures as he's a massively demanded character.

Jor-El wrote:You could, but the whole point of a Filmation sub would be for characters that didn't have vintage toys. Castaspella, maybe. If they start putting Mantenna in other subs, it would defeat the purpose of getting to the vintage figures as he's a massively demanded character.

Agreed..... HOWEVER Matty and Neitlich have made some stupid bloody choices in this line, and it's possible this was all mapped over 12 months ago.No matter how unlikely or outright ridiculous, for me any possibility is on the table til it's taken off the table.

There doesn't appear to be anything "new" revealed which wasn't already covered by the mattycollector.com leaks, except for Rattlor's armour (presumably in the next Weapons Pack) and a proto-type of what might be Netossa's helmet, although it could potentially belong to completely different figure which is being teased by Toyguru/Mattel.

And a general news round-up:

- 6 figure Filmation subscription for 2013- potential 12 figure Filmation subscription for 2014 (I don't know how accurate this is - one minute the line is on life support and may not even make it to 2014, the next minute they're offering TWO 12 figure subscriptions in 2014)- separate Castle Grayskull "accessory" pack for all the stuff sculpted by the 4H which they couldn't include for the $250 purchase price (again, I'm not sure how "official" this is)